--Only USA Today, folks, could come up with a headline like this over its story online today about the mall massacre in Omaha:
Horror for holiday shoppers:
'Terrible way to start' season
No, that isn't a parody from the Onion. It's really the headline they put on the story.
[Update, 7.20 a.m. -- The day crew must have got up and had a horrified look at the Web site, because the headline has now disappeared in favor of a more appropriate one. Maybe Al Neuharth was wandering around the office in the middle of the night muttering about what's really important in the USA, and his password still worked.]
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--Speaking of Onion, the Onion News Network Undercover Investigative Unit demands answers on airport security.
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See Salon's "Ask the Pilot" columnist Patrick Smith today on the Thanksgiving Express Lanes farce and the airplanes-underfueled nonsense overblown by ill-informed reporters.
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--Jayzus, come back to Earth and stop smoking that stuff, Pico. In which a travel writer actually states the following: "Air travel is as comfortable and reasonable today as it's ever been."
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